Skillet



April 3, 1928.- 1,665,037

c. A. MASSING SKILLET Filed D60. 21, 1925 Haj ' Ma INVENTOR.

' ATTORNEYS.

Patented Apr. 3, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. MASSIN G, OF MILLCREEK TOWNSHIP, ERIE COUNTY, PENN SYL- VANIA, ASSIGN OR TO THE GRISWOLD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF ERIE, PENN" SYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

SKILLE'I.

Application filed December 21, 1925. Serial No. 76,605.

This invention is designed to provide a skillet with. a cover which will seal the skillet notwithstanding the pouring spouts which are ordinarily arranged on the skillet, a single construction being used with various skillets having differently arranged spouts. Features and details of the invention will appear from the specification and claim.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings as follows Fig. 1 shows a plan view of the skillet.

Fig. 2 a section on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 a bottom view of the cover.

Fig. 4 a section on the line 4: -4: in Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 a section of the skillet and cover in place thereof.

1 marks the skillet bottom, 2 the side walls of the skillet, 3 pouring spouts on the skillet and 4 the handle. A cover 5 has a peripheral rib 6 designed to fit within the walls 2 of the cover. The cover also has an outwardly extending lip or flange 7 which rests on the top edge of the Wall 2 and is of sufficient width to extend over the upper edge of the pouring spout. The pouring spout is so formed with relation to the under surface of the lip 7 as to make a closure.

The cover has the drip rings 8 and handle 9.

With this construction it. is desirable to retain the juices within the skillet and the distribution of the condensation is facilitated by the drip rings.

It will be noted that with the overhanging flange 7 the cover may be placed on the 'skillet without regard to any particular location circumferentially of the cover relatively to the edge of the skillet. Consequently there is a greater convenience in the placing 40 of the cover on the skillet than Where the cover is fashioned at the spouts to fit the skillet. Further the construction of the cover issimplified.

What I claim as new is The combination of a skillet having a pouring lip; and an imperforate cover having a surrounding rib extending downwardly along the inner surface of the Wall of the skillet and a surrounding flange extending outwardly from the rib, the flange having a contour and width relatively to the pouring lip sealing the pouring lip with the cover turned in any position circumferentially on the skillet.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

CHARLES A. MASSING. 

